SO… you think candyaudioline is dead, huh? No fricking way.
We have not been blogging for the past two weeks because of unavoidable circumstances. My computer at home fucked up. Allan's keyboard is a fuck-up. Ralph is sick all the time, and not just in the head. Ayn has been… er… busy. Roel's religion forbids him to have anything to do with technological progress. Oh yes… there were many attempts to blog during vacation but blogger always has these little surprises for people who type their entries online--- poof! Your words have magically disappeared.
But here we are. We're back.
Let's see… so we DID talk about that comeback gig at the Backbeat Christmas Party. That was a superb gig. So was the Eastwood gig with Moonstar 88 the next day. Ayn had brought Tristania, who showed beginnings of being a night person as well. While other kids were approaching the stage during our set with their hands covering their ears and their faces contorted in disgust, she was sitting in the front row with her yaya staring up at us and probably wondering what her mom, her ninang, her 2 ninongs, and her tito/a were doing there making that (wonderful) racket. She stayed awake through the whole set, too, and when Ayn came down from the stage she smiled widely at her and asked to be carried. Hah! She's a lot tougher than those wimpy 5 year olds were. People gave us kudos for that performance, mainly because we're a lot tighter now, and also because they probably didn't expect us to gel so well with all the problems we'd been having the past weeks. Anyway, we're all a happy family again. Nag-group hug pa nga kami ni Roel at ni Allan eh.
That happened at the December 27 Winston Music Blast. Roel and Allan were there for Moonstar, The Youth and Parokya. We were sitting backstage and Roel was a little buzzed so he started bringing up the reasons he quit. Allan was just nodding his head… it was kind of a blur but Roel was telling Allan basically that he was such a hot-tempered jackass hehehe. Anyway, Roel said he was wrong for quitting the band; he said on principle he should have quit work. So we were just laughing that he had to bring it up and I just said, "Aww, group hug, group hug!!" and, like weirdos, we hugged. Ayn and Ralph should have seen that (heck--- YOU, dear Reader, should have).
Christmas Eve was spent separately, with our respective friends and families. As you know, Allan, Charles and I spent Christmas evening at Ayn's with a DVD marathon. For the New Year celebration, Ralph, Allan and I spent it at Allan's house (Ralph was all alone with Charmaine off to gensan for her sibling's wedding). Roel was in Baguio. Ayn was with her family-- she was kinda pissed we didn't ask her to come with us, but we were thinking it was important for her to spend it with Tristia and her family. Anyway, the three of us didn't do much. We ate dinner and then Ralph watched "So Close" on the DVD while Allan and I dozed in our seats. I woke up at around 11:30 when Ralph switched to the local countdown specials. At 11:55 pm, Salbakuta performed on channel 7 so we woke Allan up. He looked at it and then went back to sleep. Afterwards he told us he didn't appreciate the fact that he ushered in the New Year with Salbakuta on the brain hehehe. Anyway, we barely woke him up in time for the actual New Year, but we all had our coins jingling at the right moment and we greeted each other and---- well, that was it. I fell asleep again while Ralph and Allan tinkered with Soundclick and more DVDs. In the morning, we had breakfast and watched "The Pianist", which was kind of depressing, but a good movie, too. Allan fell asleep and Ralph and I decided to head home at 11 am.
Friday, we met with him again and also Charles at Megamall. We had a slow dinner at Pizza Hut and then they looked around for more DVDs. Ack! DVD fever! Ayn invited us over to her house for some baked tahong. We stopped to eat some tahong and liempo, and then we headed to Jeff Soapdish's house nearby for his birthday celebration. Acel and Popo of Moonstar were there, Jephoy too… and some of Jeff's friends from Soapdish and other bands. He had a lot of booze flowing, which Ayn and I enjoyed, and Jeff was very solicitous to his guests, bringing them food and drink all the time. They tried to have an acoustic set up, but after Jeff's first song of "High and Dry" by Radiohead (hi, thom ;*), it started drizzling. That sucked… but we still had fun. It was nice of him to ask us over.
We have great news. We are going to be recording an album of 12 songs this week. Finally, we are going to have some concrete output here. As allan says, it's long overdue for the band. Well, here we are. Yesterday afternoon, we practiced the songs we'll be recording. We're hoping to accomplish it in a few days so we could save money. This is it, candyaudioline fans--- our second album! Yipee.
Last night, Roel told us that Tiffany was looking for bands for Millennia. We were off to have dinner so Roel said he'd meet us there, if ever. Sabi niya, "Sige, tugtog tayo! I-text niyo si Tepani kung pano!"
Panalo ka talaga, dude. Candyaudioline forever.
p.s.
we did play last night. Someone lent us a cable for Ayn's bass--- thank you! It was great, although weird na naman yung sound system ng konti, pero matinutino na rin compared to before. Ang sarap kasi ang lakas at ang kapal na naman ng tunog kagabi. Sigh.
Happy New Year, candybloggers!
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